Who needs The Arsenal of Democracy when it conflicts with Free Trade Zealotry?
Yours was a good post.
Tariffs and industry-wide unions = Brazil. The reason the country prospered in the mid-40's through the 70's was because the world's big industrial nations had had their plants burned to the ground and spent decades rebuilding. Once they got out of their funk, the writing was on the wall for many unionized industries stateside - featherbedding work rules and pie-in-the-sky wages contributed to the inexorable of so many industry stalwarts. While I don't have an issue with tariffs per se, the continued existence of industry-wide unions like the UAW along with tariffs would cripple our international competitiveness.